Attack of the Black Rectangles by A. S. King

Author:A. S. King
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Grandad and Mom let me stay up until midnight. We put on punk rock music and move the furniture around after the police leave. Mom and Grandad take pictures first, of every inch of the house the way it looked when we got home, like the officer suggested, and we start a list of all the missing stuff. By midnight, the list is two pages long. We even leave off the weird stuff. A paper clip holder. Fragrant soap. Toenail clippers.

We move the living room around so it faces the dining table—Grandad says, “That way we can’t ever have our backs turned to each other.” Mom orders a new rug on the internet and reorganizes her books.

I sit in the spot on the cement floor where Grandad sat earlier in the day and I try to meditate the way he does. All I can do is picture Dad flying through space with my baseball stuff poking out the back window.

Mom and Grandad talk pretty loud sometimes. Mom cries a little, but Grandad keeps saying she’s “better off” and then they talk about the mug.

“He knew what he was doing,” Grandad tells her.

“I know,” Mom says.

“He was never gonna change, kiddo,” Grandad says. “He was just getting meaner.”

“I know,” Mom says.

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